Trucking Fuel Surcharge Calculator

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Current diesel index, pump-card or contract price per US gallon. This calculator does not fetch live diesel data.
$/gal
Contract base diesel price where surcharge starts.
$/gal
MPG divisor used by the surcharge agreement. It may differ from actual route MPG.
mpg
Actual loaded route fuel economy used for recovery-margin math.
mpg
Loaded or billable miles that receive the surcharge.
mi
Additional operating miles that burn fuel but do not receive the per-mile surcharge.
mi
Number of similar loads in the quote, lane or accounting period.
loads
Linehaul revenue per billable mile, before fuel surcharge.
$/mi
Optional floor applied to the per-mile surcharge.
$/mi
Optional cap applied to the per-mile surcharge. Raise this if the contract has no practical cap.
$/mi

Results

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Applied surcharge
0.5$/mi
Caution

Formula value controls before any floor or cap.

Also computed

Total fuel surchargeCaution250.00$

Applied surcharge per mile times total billable miles.

Fuel recovery marginCaution−3.85$

Surcharge is short of the incremental fuel cost in this screen.

Formula surcharge0.5$/mi

Max(current diesel price - base diesel price, 0) divided by the surcharge MPG basis.

Diesel price spread3$/gal

Incremental fuel cost253.85$

Current fuel cost minus baseline fuel cost across billable and non-billable miles.

Current fuel cost359.62$

Method notes 3 notes
  • Formula surcharge per mile = max(current diesel price - base diesel price, 0) / surcharge MPG basis.
  • Total surcharge applies only to billable miles. Recovery margin compares that surcharge with the diesel-price increase across billable and non-billable operating miles.
  • This calculator does not fetch diesel indexes, assign carrier tariff rules, calculate accessorials, taxes, IFTA, detention, discounts, FSC table breakpoints or contract compliance. Use the shipper/carrier agreement and current fuel index for final billing.

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